INTERVIEW: GA Sen Candidate Kelvin King Talks Warnock, Election Integrity, Big Tech, And More

During a special runoff election in 2021, radical Democrat Raphael Warnock won a Senate seat in the state of Georgia.

Warnock defeated Republican Kelly Loeffler, who was appointed after former Senator Johnny Isakson resigned with three years left in his term. Because of this turnover, Warnock will face another Republican opponent in November 2022.

One possible Republican challenger to Warnock is businessman Kelvin King, who announced his candidacy in April.

I recently had the opportunity to speak with King about numerous issues, including Raphael Warnock, abortion, bringing Democrats to the Republican Party, national security, election integrity, and much more.

Q: Can you tell me a little bit about your background and why you decided to jump into politics now?

KING: Yeah, sure. My background, well, I’m born and raised here in Georgia. I’m an Air Force Academy graduate. I served in the U.S. Air Force after graduation as a Contracting Officer or a Procurement Officer. So, my job was to actually buy things, to spend the government’s money. I was Officer of the Year, I did well in the Air Force, but I wanted to go into corporate America. So, after my five year term in Air Force, I went into corporate America for about ten years and decided that, hey, I wanted a piece of the American dream in terms of entrepreneurship. And I started my own construction company about nine years ago from scratch in a bedroom in my home. And I grew it out of my basement. And now I own a building over near Atlanta Braves stadium. So that’s my business background, and I’ve been involved with the Republican Party for the last couple of years, several years actually.

And we saw this Senate race, and I was actually involved with our prior two senators’ races. So too my wife, we both were involved with their races, and we didn’t see anyone that we actually had confidence in that could win this seat. We thought this is a unique race. We saw the Loeffler/Warnock race from the inside, and we know the strategy and tactics, and we felt that the candidate that could win needed certain attributes — and I possessed all of them. They needed to be born and raised in Georgia; they needed to be a military veteran. They needed to be a business owner or someone with a high degree of business acumen. And we thought that someone who could win votes in the rural and urban communities would be [the] ideal candidate. And frankly, a minority, a black candidate would make sense in this race, not because of identity politics at all, but because we can take off those typical attacks, we can take them off the table, and we can talk to issues. If we can disarm Warnock, and we can talk issues, we are in a much better position to win back this U.S. Senate seat.

And I checked off all those boxes, plus my wife is very effective in the state, in terms of our political party. She’s been involved with the party for over a decade, and she’s in media as a Republican commentator. And together, we’re just a unique team, and we decided to jump in because we knew we could win this race.

Q: There are multiple candidates already in the primary, including arguably the most high profile in Herschel Walker. What makes you the best can candidate to take on Warnock as opposed to any of the other several who are in the race already?

KING: Yeah, there are a few, there are a handful of candidates in this race, and Herschel Walker is in the race as well. There’s no secret that Mr. Walker has name recognition and the Trump endorsement; he has a close relationship with President Trump. But we evaluated that, that was in our calculus, him entering the race. In fact, I’m close to President Trump as well. I respect the president for backing Mr. Walker. And I’ve spoken on stage with President Trump several times, but at the end of the day, I believe that when you remove the personal relationships and the emotions from the equation, I’m the best candidate and best equipped to defeat Warnock. Based on my background — I started my company. I have my own business that I started from scratch, and my life has been built around Georgia and within Georgia. I’ve served my country. I have substantial business contacts and experience throughout the state of Georgia. And I’m the most accessible candidate that’s out here. I’ve built my campaign around direct voter contact. Mr. Walker has already skipped a candidate forum and several major events. We’ll see if that trend continues, but at the end of the day, if you can’t face the Georgia primary voter, how will you be able to

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